Museum Blog

19 article(s) for October 2015

The Museum’s Health Sciences Department is partnering with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to publish a monthly series on the Museum blog called “Know Health”. The articles focus on current health topics selected by CU’s medical and graduate students in order to provide both Engli…

This mosaic shows Ceres' Occator crater and surrounding terrain from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers), as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Occator is about 60 miles (90 kilometers) across and 2 miles (4 kilometers) deep. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
NASA's Dawn spacecraft…

This is an artist's impression of innumerable Earth-like planets that have yet to be born over the next trillion years in the evolving universe. Credits: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Earth came early to the party in the evolving universe. According to a new theoretical study, when our solar s…

This visualization shows side by side comparisons of Pacific Ocean sea surface height (SSH) anomalies of what is presently happening in 2015 with the Pacific Ocean signal during the famous 1997 El Niño. These 1997 and 2015 El Niño animations were made from data collected by the TOPEX/Poseidon (…

70,000 years ago: A young, female Columbian mammoth, grazing the shores of a small peat bog high in the Rocky Mountains, meets a terrible fate. Whether driven by some fearsome Pleistocene predator, or simply seeking water or food, she gets trapped in a sticky, cold mix of mud and rotting plants. Now…

A recent image released from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has provided astronomers with amazing new detail into how planets form. Ka Chun talks about this new image and the features that have scientists intrigued.
Links to Ka Chun's stories: Hunting for planets in the HL Tau di…

Ka Chun finishes up with a look at two planets in our own solar system. Venus is Earth’s sister planet, similar in size and mass. But Venus has a much thicker atmosphere. How did the atmospheres of Earth and Venus end up so different? One theory suggests Earth may have had a more massive atmosphere …

Steve brings us up to date with the latest news from Mars rovers, Opportunity and Curiosity.
Links to Steve's stories:
Opportunity rover Curiosity rover
60 Minutes in Space - Scientists from the Space Sciences Department at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science take you "behind the stories" …